Challenging the prevalent view that in order to establish his ?Dialogical? thought Martin Buber had to forsake his earlier ?mystical? work, Israel Koren demonstrates instead that mystical paradigms serve as the foundation for Buber?s dialogue and endow it with greater depth. more...

There are many applications in which the reliability of the overall system must be far higher than the reliability of its individual components. In such cases, designers devise mechanisms and architectures that allow the system to either completely mask the effects of a component failure or recover from it so quickly that the application is not seriously... more...